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10/20/2022

Heat waves in U.S. rivers are on the rise. Here's why that's a problem

Oct 20 2022 6:00 AM

In recent years, heat waves in U.S. rivers have gotten more frequent, causing trouble for fish, plants and water quality.

Black Death immunity came at a cost to modern-day health

Oct 19 2022 11:00 AM

A genetic variant that boosts Crohn's disease risk may have helped people survive the 14th century bubonic plague known as the Black Death.

Ancient DNA unveils Siberian Neandertals' small-scale social lives

Oct 19 2022 11:00 AM

Females often moved into their mate's communities, which totaled about 20 individuals, researchers say.

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For the first time, astronomers saw dust in space being pushed by starlight

Oct 18 2022 11:00 AM

Images collected over 16 years reveal that dust expelled from a well-known binary star system is hurried on its way by light from those stars.

The pandemic shows us how crises derail young adults' lives for decades

Oct 18 2022 7:00 AM

Age matters for when we experience calamities, such as pandemics. Young adults are especially vulnerable to getting thrown off their life course.

Honeybees order numbers from left to right, a study claims

Oct 17 2022 3:07 PM

In experiments, bees tend to go to smaller numbers on the left, larger ones on the right. But the idea of a mental number line in animals has critics.

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Some seabirds survive typhoons by flying into them

Oct 17 2022 10:00 AM

Streaked shearwaters off the coast of Japan soar for hours near the eye of passing cyclones as a strategy to weather the storm.

A swarm of sneaky omicron variants could cause a COVID-19 surge this fall

Oct 17 2022 7:00 AM

Scientists are tracking similar mutations showing up in many variants that help the coronavirus evade some of our immune defenses and treatments.

50 years ago, scientists found a new way to clean up oil spills

Oct 14 2022 9:00 AM

In the 1970s, researchers added chemicals to the list of oil spill cleanup methods. Soon, they may add microbes.

A 3-D model of the Cat's Eye nebula shows rings sculpted by jets

Oct 14 2022 7:00 AM

The Cat's Eye is one of the most complex nebulae known. A 3-D reconstruction reveals the source of some of that complexity.

This ancient worm might be an important evolutionary missing link

Oct 13 2022 10:29 AM

A roughly 520-million-year-old fossil may be the common ancestor of a diverse collection of marine invertebrates.

Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands

Oct 13 2022 6:00 AM

Urban growth around 4,600 years ago, near what is now southern Iraq, occurred on marshy outposts that lacked a city center.

Dinosaur 'mummies' may not be rare flukes after all

Oct 12 2022 2:00 PM

Bite marks on a fossilized dinosaur upend the idea that exquisite skin preservation must result from a carcass's immediate smothering under sediment.

Clumps of human nerve cells thrived in rat brains

Oct 12 2022 11:00 AM

New results suggest that environment matters for the development of brain organoids, 3-D nerve cell clusters that grow and mimic the human brain.

NASA's DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid

Oct 11 2022 5:29 PM

Data obtained since the spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid show that the impact altered the space rock's orbit even more than intended.

The James Webb Space Telescope spied the earliest born stars yet seen

Oct 11 2022 12:00 PM

The stars, found in the first released science image from the James Webb Space Telescope, probably winked into existence about 13 billion years ago.

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